Built on WordPress, the highly acclaimed Black Country History website uses Archives and Museum data imported and normalised to Spectrum 3.1. The data is initially sourced from offline systems such as Modes and DS Calm and is uploaded to the Orangeleaf Systems Collections Base aggregator which, at it’s core comprises a SOLR search engine. The Collections Base system transforms using XSLTs the raw uploaded data, standardising it to Spectrum 3.1 before indexing it into the SOLR server. I wrote the core Collections Base import and transformation application, as well as the WordPress plugin that talks to the SOLR server. The Black Country website was the first of many that now search the Collections Base repository. Others include: geologymatters.org.uk, spitfirerw388.org.uk, stoke100.org.uk, inspired-designs.org.uk, and more are being added all the time.

Tags: Orangeleaf, plugins, public sector, search, SOLR, Wordpress, XML, XSLT

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